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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1890
Page
7
Local page mixs community events including church services and gatherings at Warren Pa Presby/ELC notices. Advertisements from A Siegel & Son and Merek Bros outline holiday goods and clerks. News on fairs, sleighing, the Warren Badge lodge, and social alerts plus real estate transfers and travel notes.
A jumble of late 19th century ads offers bargains on blankets jackets and hosiery at Warren stores, plus a sensational home cure offer from Dr Parker. The Ledger touts a harvest home sale with vast food quantities listed for a 1890 event and various advertisements for lithographs and office supplies.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Co offers 2500 for the arrest of the person or persons who left a dynamite package on Ridgeway express train number six last Tuesday morning. The package was found a few miles east of Warren on a rack and later carried into the bar car for disposal. Officials say the dynamite could have blown the train to eternity with any accident or jar.
An old advertisement touts the Banner Shoe Dressing of this country as Button's Raven Gloss. It warns against substitutes and imitators claiming Raven Gloss preserves feather and gives a new and natural appearance.
The Boston Shoe Store promotes Raven Glass Dressing and a full line of boots and shoes. They invite customers to call for bargains and highlight their ladies and gents holiday slippers as finest and cheaper than elsewhere in the county.
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